Category Archives: World News

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Tina Kaidanow on April 25 met with President Ilham Aliyev, Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, other high-level Government of Azerbaijan officials, and civil society leaders during her visit to Baku.

Nearly 800 classified U.S. military documents obtained by WikiLeaks reveal extraordinary details about the alleged terrorist activities of al Qaeda operatives captured and housed at the U.S. Navy’s detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The secret documents have been made available to several news organizations, including the New York Times and the Washington Post – and some have been published by WikiLeaks, an organization that facilitates the anonymous leaking of secret information. Continue reading →

Tim Hetherington, the esteemed photojournalist and an Oscar nominee for a gritty and harrowing documentary about the Afghan war, has been killed in the war-torn Libyan city of Misrata, according to the president of the agency that represented him.

Another journalist was seriously wounded but his or her identity was not disclosed. Panos Pictures, which employed Hetherington, confirmed that the photographer’s family had been notified. Continue reading →

Syrian security forces killed as many as 24 people over the past two days in areas where anti-government protests have been under way, an opposition source said Monday. (cnn.com)

by cnn.com

Some of the victims were killed in Talbisa when security forces fired on mourners at a funeral Sunday, opposition sources said.

Forces also raided homes and shot people on the streets in Talbisa, said Wissam Tarif, a rights activist who is outside the country and in communication with sources inside the country.

Tarif learned that 11 people were killed in Talbisa and 21 were wounded, but later lost communication with the town and could only confirm the names of five people killed in Talbisa. Continue reading →

China has arrested a pro-democracy activist, the latest detention in the government’s effort to prevent the Arab world’s “Jasmine Revolution” from spreading into China, a human rights group said Wednesday. (cnn.com)

Zhu Yufu, a longtime activist and a founder of the China Democracy Party, is accused of “inciting subversion of state power,” the group Chinese Human Rights Defenders said.

Zhu is at least the fourth activist reported to be arrested and accused of that crime in recent weeks. Continue reading →